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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Apart from their not being elegant, is there any downside to using <h1>, <h2> etc heads on the title page? I appreciate that they will then be inhaled into the virtual table of contents, but it's a matter of seconds to get them out of there. At the present I have a parallel set of styles for the title page and for the occasional heading that doesn't have to be in the TOC, but life would be easier without that accretion.
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nj:
Don't forget, styles are NOT about how they look, really; they are
structural. When you use styles, think about what something
IS, not what it
looks like.
If you don't intend to use the title page as part of your book's structure, then you should indeed continue to use the parallel styles--it's the better and cleaner way to do it. And remember, while you think of it being "seconds to get them out of there," it's not, really--that won't come out of the NCX, and will indeed affect how the NCX displays (or doesn't) in various devices. If you use an ePUB with that in it for mobi-creation, you could run into display issues on those devices/readers that use the NCX for the displayed MOBI, rather than the toc.html.
FWIW.
Hitch